Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert Named Denver’s Best Place to Work in 2006

Denver, Colo.—Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert has been recognized as Denver’s Best Place to Work among medium-sized companies. Compiled results of the independent web-based employee research were released by Quantum Market Research, Wichita, Kan., scoring Kamlet Shepherd number one among Denver companies with 50 to 150 employees.

Awards were given last week in a ceremony hosted by the Denver Business Journal, which sponsored the research and made the call for nominations in Best Places to Work in three categories: small companies, 10 to 50 employees; medium companies, 51 to 150 employees and large companies, more than 150 employees.

In addition to employees from competing companies, Kamlet Shepherd employees were given a battery of questions to answer anonymously about their own company on a secure Web site. The survey, developed by Quantam, measured 40 attributes known to drive employee engagement, including team effectiveness, retention risk, alignment with goals, trust with co-workers, individual contribution, manager effectiveness, trust in senior leaders, feeling valued, work engagement and people practices. Each question was a given value of one to six points, depending on the response check by the employee.

Winners were chosen by a numerical score. Kamlet Shepherd received a 93.87 average score from current employees.

“We believe this recognition—which is generated by our own employees—is an affirmation about our company and the way we like to do business,” said Jay Kamlet, co-founder of the firm. “We create effective teams of people, we work to leverage individual strengths and we sincerely trust and respect each other.”

According to partner Lee Reichert, the 58 employees are committed to the firm, to their work and to their clients.

“I find that all the people with whom I work are highly committed to understanding our clients’ businesses and are passionate about producing superior results for them. We truly take ownership in our clients’ businesses,” he said.

According to Willie Shepherd, chairman and co-founder, the organization’s leaders are committed to making it a great place to work. They offer special services for working parents, including paid child care after hours for firm-sponsored events and leave for new mothers and fathers, as well as special family events including a summer picnic and a popular Halloween office party. Partners and associates are given time, encouragement and budget support to become meaningfully involved in community and civic projects of their choice, which range from tutoring elementary school children to teaching self-esteem and soccer skills to inner-city students.

“We host training events, social events and fundraisers for clients, employees and community members and supports dozens of black tie events and causes with Denver and the Rocky Mountain region, but that’s only part of it,” said Shepherd. “We talk to each other, we are enthusiastic and optimistic, we have fun, and we share a vision of what we want to be—the pre-eminent law firm in this area. But when all is said and done, it’s not about our organization, it’s about our people. We have the best people who are committed to accomplishing great things.”